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IROS
2008
IEEE
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Design of a quasi-passive knee exoskeleton to assist running
— In this paper we describe the design and preliminary evaluation of an energetically-autonomous powered knee exoskeleton to facilitate running. The device consists of a knee bra...
Aaron M. Dollar, Hugh M. Herr
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Interacting with a mobile robot: Evaluating gestural object references
— Creating robots able to interact and cooperate with humans in household environments and everyday life is an emerging topic. Our goal is to facilitate a humanlike and intuitive...
Joachim Schmidt, Nils Hofemann, Axel Haasch, Janni...
IROS
2008
IEEE
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High-dimensional underactuated motion planning via task space control
Abstract— Kinodynamic planning algorithms have the potential to find feasible control trajectories which accomplish a task even in very nonlinear or constrained dynamical system...
Alexander C. Shkolnik, Russ Tedrake
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Mobile robot broadband sound localisation using a biologically inspired spiking neural network
— A biologically inspired azimuthal broadband sound localisation system is introduced to simulates the functional organisation of the human auditory midbrain up to the inferior c...
Jindong Liu, Harry R. Erwin, Stefan Wermter
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Bayesian state estimation and behavior selection for autonomous robotic exploration in dynamic environments
— In order to be truly autonomous, robots that operate in natural, populated environments must have the ability to create a model of these unpredictable dynamic environments and ...
Georgios Lidoris, Dirk Wollherr, Martin Buss
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Motives as intrinsic activation for human-robot interaction
— For humanoid robots that should assist humans in their daily life the capability of an adequate interaction with human operators is a key feature. A key factor for human like i...
Jochen Hirth, Karsten Berns
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Viability and predictive control for safe locomotion
— The problem of safe locomotion of legged and wheeled robots, when trying to avoid falling, tipping over or hitting obstacles, appears to be a problem of viability and not of Ly...
Pierre-Brice Wieber
IROS
2008
IEEE
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Development of on-line simulation system for multi camera based wide field of view display
— IRS Soryu is rescue robot which used for victim search in disaster area. We aim at development of display method for wide view angle and high definition images for controlling...
Naoki Midorikawa, Kazunori Ohno, Satoshi Saga, Sat...
IROS
2008
IEEE
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GP-BayesFilters: Bayesian filtering using Gaussian process prediction and observation models
Abstract— Bayesian filtering is a general framework for recursively estimating the state of a dynamical system. The most common instantiations of Bayes filters are Kalman filt...
Jonathan Ko, Dieter Fox
IROS
2008
IEEE
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What do people expect from robots?
— The study presented in this paper explores people perception of robots, with a particular focus on domestic use. We addressed issues related to positive and negative attitudes ...
Céline Ray, Francesco Mondada, Roland Siegw...